Can Energy-Producing Buildings Work in Swampy South? Atlanta Is Trying

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A new Georgia Tech building designed to produce more energy than it consumes will pit the latest energy-saving tech against Atlanta’s humidity

A two-story Atlanta building designed to produce more energy than it consumes is poised to open in early fall, a crucial test case of whether a large-scale environmentally-advanced project can achieve its goals in the heat and humidity of the Southeast.

The Georgia Institute of Technology and its partner the Kendeda Fund, a private grant foundation, are finishing up a 37,000 square-foot campus building. The building, which will have classrooms and teaching labs, was designed to be certified as a so-called “living building,”...

 

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As far as I know, humidity does affect photovoltaics that much.

Fortunately you need less energy to cool a building than to heat it keikomorris

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